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Determination factor: Ten years spent on Byron’s life may net results for the Wildes
swordsman, Cornel answers the charges of his critics
BY LOVELLA 0. PARSONS
THE central figure in a controversial set of opinions in Hollywood right now is a dark, dashing, strangely moody young man named Cornel Louis Wilde.
“Women are mad for his smouldering type of good looks. He’ll give Tyrone Power a shove for his honors on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot,” they say on one hand. Promptly those on the other side of the fence answer the boast with, “Wilde’s had his biggest flare while Tyrone was away in the service. He’ll be second-best swashbuckler now.”
Taking up the cry his critics continue, “It’s all gone to his head. Broke two or three years ago, he’s riding the crest of the wave' now and can’t take it. Look at the rows he’s having continually with the studio that gave him his break.” Whereupon the pro-Wilde group replies, “Cornel’s misunderstood. His Continental reserve is mistaken for aloofness, his independence for temperament.”
But ahead of everything else you hear, “He’s hepped on his wife’s career. If he doesn’t stop putting her interests ahead of his own, it will be dynamite!”
I’ve listened to these things at parties and over dinner tables for the past year or so and, unusual for me, I mean I’ve really listened instead of leaping in with both feet to air opinions of my own.
Until just lately I could take Cornel — or leave him, but recent developments have forced him so prominently into, the limelight that it’s been about as easy to ignore him as a baby typhoon. First there was the story that he was demanding $1000 more weekly salary. Then came word he was kicking up his heels about playing in “Forever Amber.” Climaxing this there was the announcement that ( Continued on page 111)
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